Nan Colton as Georgia O'Keeffe

Pre-Show Reception at 2 pm -

Come join us in person for a unique experience with Nan Colton bringing Georgia O'Keeffe to life! Dive into the story of this iconic artist through Nan's captivating portrayal. It’s a fun, engaging way to get inspired and learn about one of America’s greatest painters. Perfect for art lovers and curious minds alike. See you there!

For several decades Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in American art who, remarkably, maintained her independence from shifting artistic trends. She painted prolifically, and almost exclusively, the flowers, animal bones, and landscapes around her studios in Lake George, New York, and New Mexico, and these subjects became her signature images. She remained true to her own unique artistic vision and created a highly individual style of painting, which synthesized the formal language of modern European abstraction and the subjects of traditional American pictorialism. Her vision, continued to inform her work and was based on finding the essential, abstract forms in the subjects she painted. With exceptionally keen powers of observation and great finesse with a paintbrush, she recorded subtle nuances of color, shape, and light. Her life was as remarkable and memorably colorful as her art work.

ABOUT NAN COLTON

Nan Colton is a produced playwright, director, storyteller, actress and performing teaching artist having performed and lectured professionally on stages throughout South Africa, Great Britain and the United States. Nan's entrepreneurial spirit created Solo Productions in 1995, and she has committed her talents to create and present theatrical solo performances and workshops that are interactive, educative and entertaining in museums, art galleries, schools, universities and at conferences. Recently she established NAN COLTON ENTERPISES, LLC to include her publishing and writing endeavors.

Nan has researched, produced and performed over 52 vastly different original scripts (historically accurate or humorously fictitious) characters as well as a series of short stories all written to simultaneously entertain and educate. Another side of her presentational work: Nan is currently contracted as a "Literacy and Performing Teaching Artist" to encourage lifelong learning by teaching the craft of acting. Her objective is to stir participants imaginations, engage them with her love of reading and persuade them to explore the power in words. “Consider the possibility that your wealth of ideas is your words – so how you spend them is important.”